CFP: Ventriloquism and Contemporary Art
Isabelle L Wallace <[email protected]>
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CALL FOR PAPERS Ventriloquism and Contemporary Art Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2019 Deadline for essays: September 15, 2019 With historical roots in religious and spiritual practices dating to antiquity, ventriloquism became popular as a theatrical practice in the nineteenth century, with stage performers who gained notoriety for their ability to “throw” their voices onto the bodies of artificial dummies, puppets, and marionettes. Although theoretically outmoded by recording technologies that make possible more seamless practices of voice-throwing, dubbing, and other visual and sonic manipulations, ventriloquism remains alive and well as a strategy within contemporary art and art history, already having been highlighted by artists dating back to Paul Klee and Jasper Johns and, more recently, figures such as Candice Breitz, Jordan Wolfson, and duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (as well as numerous figures gathered together in Ingrid Schaffner’s insightful Puppet Show in 2008). In fact, as the practice of ventriloquism has waned, it has arguably gained currency as an idea within the visual arts. This volume, bolstered by the postwar interest in the anachronistic art of ventriloquy, will address a variety of objects and interpretive strategies in order to understand the significance and value of ventriloquism today. Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and vivification, we invite case studies in which this practice is invoked across a range of media, whether explicitly or implicitly. More specifically, we seek essays (5000-7500 words) that consider artistic, art-historical, and curatorial practices that use ventriloquy as a means of examining contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Please submit abstracts (250-500 words) along with a brief bio (100 words) and c.v. to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> no later than April 15, 2019. Editors will reply to inquiries no later than May 1, 2019 with request for full drafts of essays by September 15, 2019. Jennie Hirsh (Maryland Institute College of Art) & Isabelle Wallace (University of Georgia) ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html